"According to a Department of Energy spokesperson, Jonathan I. Katz is
no longer a member of the scientific team tasked with finding solutions
to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The team was put together by U.S.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Stephanie Mueller told OutQ News: 'Dr. Chu has spoken with dozens of
scientists and engineers as part of his work to help find solutions to
stop the oil spill. Some of Professor Katz’s controversial writings have
become a distraction from the critical work of addressing the oil
spill. Professor Katz will no longer be involved in the Department’s
efforts.'"

"Unfortunately, the victims are not only those whose reckless behavior
brought death on themselves. There are many completely innocent victims,
too: hemophiliacs (a substantial fraction died as a result of
contaminated clotting factor), recipients of contaminated transfusions,
and their spouses and children, for AIDS can be transmitted
heterosexually (in America, only infrequently) and congenitally. The icy
road was lined with unsuspecting innocents, who never chose to ride a
motorcycle. Guilt for their deaths is on the hands of the homosexuals
and intravenous drug abusers who poisoned the blood supply. These people
died so the sodomites could feel good about themselves."

The anti-gay professor—who also mocks the developmentally disabled—is a climate change denialist and once said "global warming is probably good for humanity." Probably not the best appointment for an Administration that wants to pass a climate change bill. BP is probably sorry to lose this "extraordinarily intelligent" mind, tho.